Collection to help refugees in Ukraine generated EUR 7,500

Help to victims of war

The Caritas Finland collection to help refugees in Ukraine generated more than EUR 7,500. The monies raised were used to help refugees in the town of Vynnyky in Western Ukraine. The aid goes through a local Caritas organisation, Caritas Lviv.

Some 160 people from the war zones in Luhansk and Donetsk and the Crimea have found shelter in an abandoned military barracks in the town of Vynnyky in Lviv Oblast. Most of the refugees are women, children and old people. Among the inhabitants are the children from a children's home in Mariupol.

The heating system in the abandoned barracks was not working and as the winters in Ukraine are cold, Caritas Finland set up a collection to raise money to renew the heating system, pay for fuel and provide food for the refugees. The appeal was successful and a new heater has been installed.

Account: FI73 8000 1270 1545 04 - Reference 2121

More than a million Ukrainians have been forced to flee from their homes in 2014. More than 430 000 are internally displaced people from Crimea and the eastern parts of the country. Most have had to leave everything they had back home, but the civil war makes it impossible to return. The state of Ukraine is not able to provide for all the refugees.

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Warm clothes have already been sent from Finland to the refugees in Vynnyky in Lviv Oblast: